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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Introducing slight binary incompatibility in newer executables?
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
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> 
> I don't think this binary incompatibility is so great that we need to bump
> the middle number.  If we do that then we should probably think about other
> changes as well and maybe even creating a cygwin2.dll.
>

IMHO, it is, any cygwin-app that is updated now, will have to have the updated
cygwin1.dll.  What other changes are you thinking of?  
 
>
> Anyway, my initial thought that my changes would speed things up may have
> been too optimistic.  The DLL that I've created is 30K larger than the
> previous version and I'm not sure why.  I'm investigating now.
> 

You also said that it would decrease the size of the executable, is this
accomplished.  If so, then it could still be worth it.

BTW, try adding a -D__OPTIMIZE_SIZE__ to the newlib/libc/string/Makefile to see
if you notice and increase in speed.

Regards,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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